AFT Pharmaceuticals has filed a lawsuit seeking to pre-empt competitor Reckitt Benckiser from pursuing a lawsuit against it over recent ads for its painkiller Maxigesic.
Unilever is not ready to put its long-running consumer case against competitor Beiersdorf to rest, filing a challenge to a ruling that Beiersdorf did not make misleading claims about its Nivea clinical strength deodorant products.
A Labor government would require the ACCC to conduct post-merger reviews to test claims made at the time the transaction was approved.
Railway technology company Wavetrain Systems has dropped its bid for a court order barring a competitor started by its former CEO from making allegedly false claims about its patented rail safety devices to clients.
The Full Court has denied a request by Sanofi that it review a judge’s refusal to block Alphapharm from listing its Semglee insulin injector pen on the PBS, calling the pharmaceutical giant’s appeal “misconceived”.
The stakes will be high for the ACCC when the trial kicks off Monday in its case against Ramsay Health Care alleging the hospital giant misused its market power and engaged in exclusive dealing, after the competition regulator came up short in its last big misuse of market power case against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has added to logistics provider GetSwift’s legal woes, filing a lawsuit over the company’s alleged failure to disclose material information to shareholders about contracts with clients such as Amazon and Yum! Brands.
Sims Metal is facing a shareholder class action over an earnings guidance that allegedly failed to take into account a likely fall in scrap metal prices.
A judge has denied law firm Piper Alderman’s request to replace an uncooperative expert witness in a class action against KPMG over a failed takeover offer, three weeks before the matter goes to trial.
New Zealand-based medical device maker Fisher & Paykel and US-based ResMed have agreed to resolve all disputes between them over patents for devices used to treat sleep apnea.